India's Airtel claims "deadliest hackers" still can't crack its iPhone 3G

Hey, hackers! Now that we've got the attention of millions upon millions of incredibly talented individuals, here's your next challenge. India's Airtel -- which is offering Apple's iPhone 3G at a near-stratospheric price -- has claimed that "even the most deadly hackers on the planet won't be able to crack the codes that support the iPhone's Airtel applications with rival company SIMs." Just so you know, it appears that Airtel worked with Apple to develop "operator-specific iPhone applications," which is an interesting tidbit in and of itself. But let's focus on the task at hand here, and that's proving that making ridiculous claims about impenetrability always comes back to bite ya.

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[(Unverified) Posted Aug 23rd 2008 12:23PM]

Dumbest thing you can ever say.

[Valicore Posted Aug 23rd 2008 5:40PM]

For real, nothing like daring the whole world to show how secure your product is, right.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 3:05AM]

I'm betting that the applications rely on some part of the service (some central server or feature only available on Airtel's network), and thus cannot be run on another network anyway. Basically like AT&T saying it dares hackers to make visual voicemail work on the iPhone when using a T-Mobile US SIM...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 5:17AM]

I bet someone should have fired up a jailbreak right at the press release and rubbed it in their faces. Dumbasses!